Amazon and Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc, square off in many areas, from cloud computing and online search, to selling voice-controlled gadgets like the Google Home and Amazon Echo Show. Also read YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content"Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and Fire TV," Google said. Amazon and Apple mended ties earlier this year when it was announced Prime Video would come to Apple TV. In September, Google cut off YouTube from the Amazon Echo Show, which had displayed videos on its touchscreen without video recommendations, channel subscriptions and other features. The Fire TV loses access to its YouTube app on Jan. 1, Google said.

Source: dna December 06, 2017 04:11 UTC